10 (A)We are fools for Christ's sake, but (B)you are wise in Christ. (C)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour (D)we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and (E)buffeted and (F)homeless, 12 and we (G)labor, working with our own hands. (H)When reviled, we bless; (I)when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. (J)We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, (K)the refuse of all things.

14 I do not write these things (L)to make you ashamed, but to admonish you (M)as my beloved children. 15 For (N)though you have countless[a] guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For (O)I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16 I urge you, then, (P)be imitators of me. 17 That is why (Q)I sent[b] you Timothy, (R)my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,[c] (S)as I teach them everywhere in every church.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:15 Greek you have ten thousand
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Or am sending
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Some manuscripts add Jesus

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